`Good Girls go to Heaven; Bad Girls...' Learn to be Good: Quizzes in American and Brazilian Teenage Girls' Magazines
dc.contributor.author | Ostermann, Ana | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Keller-Cohen, Deborah | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-13T19:32:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-04-13T19:32:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Ostermann, Ana; Keller-Cohen, Deborah (1998). "`Good Girls go to Heaven; Bad Girls...' Learn to be Good: Quizzes in American and Brazilian Teenage Girls' Magazines." Discourse & Society 4(9): 531-558. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67516> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0957-9265 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67516 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines 15 quizzes in teenage girls' magazines: the American `Teen, Seventeen and Sassy, and the Brazilian Capricho, over the period 1994-5. It argues that the genre quiz, an apparently playful feature in these magazines, is not as harmless as it appears to be. In addition to encouraging girls towards self-scrutiny, quizzes work as `disciplinary instruments', aiming at the heterosexist socialization of teenage girls. Analysis of the macro-structure of the quizzes reveals a problem-solution structure is used to accomplish this. The producers of these texts judge, evaluate, and classify girls as either `good' or `bad', and tend to prescribe and proscribe types of behavior from a heterosexist perspective. The high informality and ludic appearance of quizzes, therefore, disguise what seems to be an important agenda: to discipline girls to be `good'. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Critical Discourse Analysis | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Heterosexist Discourse | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Media Discourse | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Quiz | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sexist Discourse | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Socialization | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Teenage Girls' Magazines | en_US |
dc.title | `Good Girls go to Heaven; Bad Girls...' Learn to be Good: Quizzes in American and Brazilian Teenage Girls' Magazines | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Communications | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Linguistics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67516/2/10.1177_0957926598009004006.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0957926598009004006 | en_US |
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